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1825 Great African Slave Revolt (Cuba, suppressed) 1831 Nat Turner's rebellion (Virginia, suppressed) 1831–32 Baptist War (British Jamaica, suppressed) 1839 Amistad, ship rebellion (off the Cuban coast, victorious) 1841 Creole case, ship rebellion (off the Southern U.S. coast, victorious) 1842 slave revolt in the Cherokee Nation
[4]: 597 As such, "Confrontation in the Old South characteristically took the form of an individual slave's open resistance to plantation authorities," [4]: 599 or other individual or small-group actions, such as slaves opportunistically killing slave traders in hopes of avoiding forced migration away from friends and family. [5] [6]
1712 – New York Slave Revolt, 31 total deaths consisting of 9 killed in the revolt and 23 executed as a result [1] 1849 – Astor Place riot, 25 killed and more than 120 injured [32] 1857 – Dead Rabbits Riot, eight dead and between 30 and 100 injured [7] 1870 – First New York City orange riot, eight dead [4]
Long before it became the go-to borough for hipsters and commuters, Brooklyn was once America’s third largest city, independent and separate from Manhattan and the City of New York, explains ...
Another famous slave rebellion, the Third Servile War, was led by the slave Spartacus. In the 9th century, the poet Ali bin Muhammad led imported East African slaves against the Abbasid Caliphate in Iraq during the Zanj Rebellion. Nanny of the Maroons was an 18th-century leader of the Jamaican Maroons who led them to victory in the First Maroon ...
Nat Turner's slave rebellion: August 21–23, 1831 Southampton County, Virginia: Rebel slaves Led by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed anywhere from 55 to 65 people. [13] The rebellion was put down within a few days. [14] Local blacks were massacred. Led to discriminatory legislation against both free blacks and slaves Dorr Rebellion: 1841–1842 ...
Due to a lack of workers in the colony, it relied upon on African slaves, who were described by the Dutch as "proud and treacherous", a stereotype for African-born slaves. [5] The Dutch West India Company allowed New Netherlanders to trade slaves from Angola for "seasoned" African slaves from the Dutch West Indies, particularly Curaçao, who ...
1914–1915: The Boer Revolt against the British in South Africa. 1914: The revolt of Peasants of Central Albania overthrows Prince William of Wied. 1915: The Armenian revolt in city of Van against the Ottomans in Turkey. 1915: Somba rebellion (Tammari people) [184]